Running-gear for vehicles



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. RUNNING GEAR FOR VEHIGLES. No. 389,798. Patented Sept. 18, 1888.

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FRANK DUPEE, OF HELENA, NEIV YORK.

RUNNING-G EAR FOR VEHICLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatenfN'o. 389,798, datedSeptember 18, 1888.

Application filed May 18, 1888. Serial No. 274,309.

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it. known that I, FRANK DUPEE, a'citizen of the United States,residing at Helena, in the county of St. Lawrence and State of New York,have invented anew and useful Improvement in Running-Gear, of which thefollowing is a specification.

, The invention relates to improvements in the running-gear of vehicles;and it consists in the construction and novel combination of partshereinafter described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, andpointed out in the claims hereto appended.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a bottom plan of a vehicle-gearembodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same. Fig. 3is a transverse section of the same. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of thebracebar detached from the frame.

Referring to the drawings by letter, A designates the support-frame forthe body, which frame is composed of the side sills, a a, the front andrear sills, a a, and the transverse bars B at suitable distances fromsaid front and rear sills.

- O is the front axle; O, the rear axle. a is the head-block, and c care the side rails connecting the corresponding lateral portions of thehead-block and rear axle, the gear having no sand-board.

D D are clips secured to the upper edges of the head-block and rear axlenear the rails c 011 each side, and provided with the transverse eyes d,in which the metal loops E swing. The said loops are nearly rectangularand their inner transverse end portions pass through transverse eyes fof the outwardly-extending longitudinal armsf of the correspondingtransverse bars F. The said bars have journalsf adjoining therectangular bends from which the arms f extend, which journals havehearings in blocks secured to the lower surfaces of the side sills, a,at suitable distances from the ends of the frame A.

G G are collars secured upon the bars F, inwardly adjoining the journals of said bars, and provided with the outwardly-standing arms 9,having transverse perforations g, the bars being squared and passingthrough squared openings in the collars at the points where the latterrest on said bars.

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H H are strong coiled springs surrounding the bars F, having their innerends flattened and bolted to the under sides of the bars B, and theirouter ends passing through the perforations g of the arms 9 of thecorresponding collars G.

It is evident that the springs H will keep the frame A, formed of thesills, elevated, and that whatever pressure bears on said frame, whetheron one side or near the front or the rear end thereof, will bedistributed regularly and equally over said frame by thespringconnections, and the frame will always main tain its horizontalposition.

I I are brace-rods connecting the side rails, c, with the rear axle andstaying the former on the latter.

The springs lELbesides keeping the sill-frame A in a horizontalposition, perform all the functions of the ordinary elliptic ortransverse springs of a vehicle.

Having described my invention, I claim- 1. In a vehicle-gear, thecombination of the frame,the transverse bars F, journaledin bearingssecured to said frame, and having their longitudinal arms looselyconnected to the head block and rear axle, and the coiled springssurrounding said bars, having their inner ends secured to the sill-frameand their outer ends secured to arms outstanding from collars rigidlyfixed to said bars F, substantially as specified.

2. In a vehicle gear, the combinationof the frame A, the bars F,journaled in hearings secured tosaid frame,and provided with outstandingarmsf, having their ends loosely connected to the head-block and rearaxle, respectively, the coiled springs H, having their inner endssecured to the lower surfaces of the frame A, and the collars G, securedon the bars and provided with the outwardly-standing arms 5/, having theperforations 9, through which the outer ends of the correspondingsprings pass, substantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the rectangular sill-frame A, having thetransverse rails B, and thejournal-blocksfi, secured to the lowersurfaces of the side sills, a, of the transverse bars F, having thejournals f thereon, and squared or made angular at the inner sides ofsaid journals, the collars G, having squared or angular openings to [iton the squared portions f, provided at their ends with the transverse ofsaid bars F and not turn thereon, and the eyesf, the collars G, havingthe perforated springs H, secured at their inner ends to the arms y, andthe coiled springs H, all con- 15 bars or rails 13, and having theirouter ends strueted and arranged substantially as and for 5 inserted inperforations g in the arms 9 of said the purpose described.

collars. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my 4. Thecombination, with the rectangular own I have hereto affixed mysiguaturein pressill-franie A, the hearing-blocksf the head enee of twowitnesses.

block 0, and the rear axle, G, of the clips D, FRANK DUPEE. 10 attachedto thehead-bloek and front axle, and \Vitnesses:

provided with the transverse eyes d, the metal CALVIN T. FLETCHER,

loops E, the transverse bars F, having the arms ARCHIE MOKANE.

